Love comes to you in many different forms and you gotta know when to embrace it.

Well… finally a story about scorpions that I can write about. British Scientists found a fossil of a 8 foot scorpion….390 million years old, more proof you have little to worry about here in Yelapa.. ours are only an inch or so long.

Daily we watch these mantas play close to the shore. The treat is when they jump! No worries about a “Steve Irwin incident” leave them be and they will do the same. The small sand ray is the more common sting… to increase your odds, shuffle your feet as you enter the shore.

Here is one of the regular guests at Casa de los Arboles, often seen on the giant old tree.

I was parked on the road above Boca, when the restaurant owner asked if I wanted fish. No… I replied but he wanted me to see it. I’m so glad I did! I sat there with my mouth wide open.. one of the largest fish I have ever seen!! He said it was called “turbina” [...]

The wonder dog, Paloma is doing great this summer and recently visited the upper falls. She has a number of other day trips planned in the near future.

A good hearted friend of ours recently nursed this hummingbird back to health from a damaged wing. I couldn’t not take advantage of the photo op.

I found this out there in cyberspace…photo taken in Yelapa, Nature’s wonderland.

why do you think we call him that?

a few weeks back I was working on an old water tank and found this beast inside…. ashes to ashes.

Almost daily one of the first morning birds to arrive is the chichalaca. You either love or hate them. They make me laugh. Here is a quicktime so you can experience their call.

Carla, front desk Queen at the Hotel Lagunita has a knack for hanging out with Mutts or should I say, Dogs with personality. Meet Sultan… ever so jealous and yet noble.

This week we had some other visitors… These have no head, brain, heart, eyes, nor ears and no bones, either. Give up? Jellyfish… the best precautions are to look at the shoreline before entering the water. If stung… the best thing to do is come to my office where I have a stash of cider [...]

I usually don’t write much about scorpions or snakes or other tourism killers but this is too interesting to pass up. A few days back a silver fox ran into an unnamed casa and grabbed the pant leg of the resident, Another woman inside the casa helped and fended off the beast. Within minutes the [...]